Shelfmark
Gc.7.24(39)
Title
A Signe from Heaven, or, A fearefull and terrible noise heard in the ayre at Alborow in the county of Suffolk, on Thursday the 4. day of August at 5. of the clocke in the afternoone. Wherein was heard the beating of drums, the discharging of muskets and great ordnance for the space of an houre and more, as will be attested by many men of good worth, and exhibited to some chiefe members of the honourable House of Commons. With a stone that fell from the sky in that storme or noise rather, which is here to be seene in towne, being of a great weight. Whereunto is annexed a prophesie of Merlins concerning Hull in Yorkshire..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed by T. Favvcet,, Aug. 12. 1642..
Physical description
[2], 6 p. ; 19 cm (4to)
Note
"Merlins prophesie of Kingstone upon Hull" p. 5-6, in verse.
Note
Signatures: A⁴.
Note
Includes title enclosed by decorated border, head-pieces, and one decorated initial.
Citation/references note
Wing (2nd ed.), S3776
Citation/references note
Thomason, E.111[2]
Citation/references note
ESTC, R17918
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College, undated, on front pastedown.
Binding
Sammelband. 17th-century speckled calfskin over ?pasteboards. Covers decorated with double blind fillets to form a border; gilt fillet on board edges. Spine re-backed, with blind and fillets and gilt titling over red morocco label ("Petitions etc. 1641, 2 Vol. VII"). Textblock trimmed and dyed red. Endpapers of modern undecorated paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock. 20th-century repairs by R.L. Day.
Copy-specific note
Bound with 100 other items.
Subject
Omens Early works to 1800.
Subject
Suffolk (England) History.
Subject
Great Britain History Prophecies Civil War, 1642-1649 Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Fawcett, Thomas, active 1621 - 1643 printer.
Added entry--name
Day, R. L. binder.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B52501